Random Musings About Software

UAV's or unmanned aerial vehicle, sometimes called an unmanned air-reconnaissance vehicle, is an unpiloted aircraft. UAVs can be remote controlled or fly autonomously based on pre-programmed flight plans or more complex dynamic automation systems.

Wired Science has a video about them which I've embedded below. About 1/2 through the video Wired talks to Adam Williams about his helicopoter UAV. It was surprise to see it as Adam worked at VA Software back in the day doing linear video editing software.

In some Drupal Themes there is support for displaying the "Mission Statement" across all pages and in others this support is limited to the "Front Page" or "Main Page".

If you are ever using one of the themes with limited mission statement support and want to display the mission statement across all pages you can use this to do so.

In template.php add the following to the bottom of the file:

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {
// Make custom variables available to theme templates
switch ($hook) {
// Send new variable $custom_mission to page.tpl.php
case 'page':
$vars['custom_mission'] = variable_get('site_mission', '');
break;
}
return $vars;
}


Then in page.tpl.php change:

<?php if ($mission) { ?><?php print $mission ?><?php } ?>
to be

<?php if ($custom_mission) { ?><?php print $custom_mission ?><?php } ?>

These 2 changes should allow the "Mission Statement" to be displayed across all pages.